Political Prisoner Irwin Schiff 87, Dies in US Jail for Protesting Taxation

October 21st, 2015

Awake Goy

Last week, political prisoner Irwin
Schiff died behind bars at the age of 87. He was serving multiple
sentences related to his work protesting and challenging tax laws.
Throughout his life, Schiff authored many books and ran for political
office on several occasions. ~ John Vibes

His final book, The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes, became the only non-fiction book to be banned in America.

At the age of 87, Schiff was sentenced to 14 years in prison, and sadly, he just died just before his planned release.

In a recent statement, son Peter Schiff explained how his father’s condition worsened while he was in custody:

“The
unnecessarily cruel twist in his final years occurred seven years ago
when he reached his 80th birthday.

“At that point the government moved
him from an extremely low security federal prison camp in New York State
where he was within easy driving distance from family and friends, to a
federal correctional institutes, first in Indiana and then in Texas.

“This was done specially to give him access to better medical care. The
trade off was that my father was forced to live isolated from those who
loved him.

“Given that visiting him required long flights, car rentals,
and hotel stays, his visits were few and far between.

“Yet while at these
supposed superior medical facilities, my father received virtually no
medical care at all, not even for the cataracts that left him legally
blind, until the skin cancer on his head had spread to just about every
organ in his body.

“At
the time of his diagnosis in early August of this year, he was given
four-to-six months to live.

“We tried to get him out of prison on
compassionate release so that he could live out the final months of his
life with his family, spending some precious moments with the
grandchildren he had barely known.

“But he did not live long enough for
the bureaucratic process to be completed.”

While in prison, Schiff reportedly had his commissary money taken
by the IRS, meaning he was unable to buy toothpaste and food items that
he needed.

The decision to force him to die in jail instead of allowing
him to spend his final days with his family was criticized, even by people who did not agree with his work.

Source

October 19, 2015 – KnowTheLies